This manual has been designed for ready reference and use by persons engaged in any one of many different pursuits - as students or as workers. The importance to a stenographer or a typist of being able to produce an acceptable typescript quickly on the first writing is dramatically proved by the results of recent surveys since the rewriting of letters or reports basically doubles the cost, in labor and materials. This manual provides detailed instructions regarding the proper outline, punctuation, capitalization, hyphenation, etc. for professional business correspondence.